Winter Wonderland

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Winter Wonderland

Snow is so rare in the Middle East that its appearance was enough to knock the chronic fighting from the top news spot. Parts of Israel and the West Bank got a pretty good dusting on Monday and the only fighting to be seen was a snowball clash between some Palestinian policemen. Meanwhile, Israelis were were sent home early from work and school, an Egyptian freighter caught in heavy seas was granted permission to dock in the Israeli port of Haifa and instead of the usual terror warnings, Jerusalem issued a high-level snow alert. Maybe it should just keep on snowing for a while.